Leather covered round stone attached to wood handle with brass tacks, handle decorated with brass tacks, strips of buckskin and loops of red, blue, and white glass seed beads, loops loose and some beads missing, remains of red dyed feathers at base of handle. Handsewn.
Donor:
Allen Maret
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Allen Maret
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Context of use:
Donor states that specimen was part of dance paraphernalia.